Secure Mobile Authentication for Linux Workstation log on

ISBN-13: 9783845402895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 120 str.

Habib, Usman

Opis

Password based logon schemes have many security weaknesses. For secure environments smart card and biometric based authentication solutions are available as replacement for standard password based systems. Nevertheless, the cost of deployment and maintenance of these systems is quite high. On the other hand, mobile network operators have a huge base of deployed smart cards that can be reused to provide authentication in other spheres significantly reducing costs. In this project we present a study of how mobile phones can be used to provide a secure low-cost two-factor workstation logon solution.To find and study the available mobile phone based authentication architectures and come up with workstation logon architecture the study of relevant technologies utilized in these solutions, authentication and authorization in Windows, Linux, and MAC OS X. The analysis of available mobile phone based authentication schemes like SIM Strong schemes based on EAP-SIM, Session-ID based schemes, and OTP based schemes are also added.A solution for Linux workstation logon process has been proposed in the thesis using the PAM. The Solution uses 2 factors for authentication.

O autorze

Usman Habib is currently serving as a Lecturer at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. He has done MS in Engineering- Telematics:Communication Networks and Networked Services and specialized in information security. This research was carried out in collaboration with Telenor R&I and Ubisafe AS, Norway as his MS thesis